Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who seems to think he’s a potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, apparently is under the misimpression that the fiscal cliff poses the risk of an immediate increase in budget deficits.

The truth of the matter, as I noted HERE the other day, is exactly the opposite. Going over the fiscal cliff would sharply reduce budget deficits, at least at the outset. The immediate deep cuts in federal spending and increases in taxes across the board would push budget deficits down but might also push the nation into another recession.